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conduct. Yet the labours of fifty 
years were rewarded by confiscation, 
imprisonment, and a foul attempt on 
his life, under the forms, but in express 
opposition to the spirit of public justice. 
Nay, eveu when at length liberated 
by a jury of his country*, as if nothing 
short of legislative proscription could 
impose silence, his political career was 
closed by a law, expressly enacted for 
the purpose of excluding him for ever 
from the councils of his native land. 
At last, this celebrated man, who had 
never yielded to the tide of calamity, 
was overcome by the pressure of disease. 
But he did not cease to live until, alas! 
he had almost beheld the painful com¬ 
pletion of his own predictions. Like 
Marius reclining on a broken column 
at Carthage, he saw nothing but ruins 
around him, and fearfully contemplated 
in the distance, that approaching cata¬ 
strophe, which his wiser counsels, and 
more generous plans would have avert¬ 
ed. 
Accomplished Sage! i'lustrious Ci¬ 
tizen ! last of Englishmen! If. be¬ 
fore the divine spark that actuated 
thee, return to mingle with that Deity 
whence it sprung, and to whose eter¬ 
nal existence thou wert accustomed 
to bear such ready testimony;—if thy 
shade should at this moment perchance 
flit around us—if it be still permitted 
thee to participate in any of the feelings 
common to mortals—then thou must 
contemplate this mournful and solemn 
ceremony with no small degree of satis¬ 
faction—thy obsequies, celebrated by 
those who were dear to thee in life, and 
who, while they surround thy tomb, 
seem to be animated afresh in the cause 
of public virtue, by the memory of thy 
wrongs, and the contemplation of thine 
ashes. 
NOVELTIES OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. 
NEWDETAILSre/«£/ye to DISCOVERIES 
in EGYPT, extracted from the Corres¬ 
pondence Of GEN. MINU DE MINU- 
TOLI. 
HE PrussianPdajor General Minn 
de Minutoli, accompanied by two 
naturalists, an architect and a painter, 
had been ordered to visit Greece, 
Asia Minor, Palestine, Arabia, Egypt, 
Abyssinia, &c. In Sacred Geography, 
Philosophy and History, hi. Scholz has 
been added by the Prussian Govern¬ 
ment. A letter, addressed by M. Minn 
to Prince Charles of Prussia, contains 
some interesting particulars respecting 
Egypt. It is dated from Alexandria, 
Sept. 13, 1820: 
A fter a navigation, partly extended 
by sirocco winds and tempests, I ar¬ 
rived here, on the 7th of this month, 
twenty-one days after our departure 
from Trieste. On the 9th, at seven in 
the morning, with the Prussian Consul 
and M. Drovefti, and with a dragoman 
and janizary in attendance, we repaired 
under the Prussian flag, to the Palace 
of Mehemet All, situated on the sea 
shore. The Pacha received me stand¬ 
ing, which is a high distinction, and 
afterwards made me sit down by him, 
on the divan, when coffee was pre¬ 
sented. He was so polite as not to 
smoke, conversed in the most affable 
manner, promising all possible facili¬ 
ties, and that an officer of his house 
should be my escort; a favour not 
hitherto granted to any traveller. He 
invited me to visit him frequently, and 
offered to be at the charge of my en¬ 
tertainment; this l declined, but ac¬ 
cepted his offer of one of his vessels, 
wherein to proceed to Cairo. 
Mehemet Ali is between 50 and 60 : 
he possesses an agreeable exterior, and 
has an aspect which indicates the man 
of genius. With an energy of charac¬ 
ter which constrains events, he has 
executed projects deemed impracticable 
in theory. In the towns he has estab¬ 
lished a most efficient police, and 
throughout the country such subordi¬ 
nation, that an European, without a 
change of dress, may travel from 
the Delta to the Cataracts, in perfect 
safety, and from the Oasis to the Red 
Sea. Very lately he reduced the Arab 
tribe which inhabits the Oasis of Jupi¬ 
ter Aixynon, and Argiia,and they are 
now incapable of exciting further un¬ 
easiness. He has introduced the cul¬ 
ture of silk, and is otherwise en¬ 
couraging agriculture. &c. 
Alexandria has but a dismal ap¬ 
pearance, whether surveyed from 
abroad or within. The city, with its 
wretched tenements, which are in a 
manner without roofs, looks like a 
place that has been burnt down, and 
the adjacent grounds are covered with 
sand and ruins. Here and there appear 
little gardens, planted with date trees, 
which at first have a pleasing effect, 
but soon become monotonous. A Eu¬ 
ropean 
